Sites Area in SPS

I had hoped to use a content editor webpart to modify the view of thedefault Sites area in SPS, but, as I am sure many of you are alreadyaware, selecting "Edit page" in the Sites area makes no discernibledifference--no "Modify this page" appears. Of course, I could modifyit in Front Page, but I am worried about unghosting for what is trulya minor cosmetic reason.

I have typically made changes inside of the containers on the Sites AreaSummary.aspx page using FrontPage and then used GhostHunter to reghostthe page. Let me know if you need more details.

The problem isn't that this page is not a Web Part Page, it is. Theproblem is that the Web Zone's are attributed to prevent changes fromwithin a browser. I don't know _why_ they did this but it is relativelyeasy to work around.

The Sites and Home areas, AIUI, are the mostdifficult to modify. Remember portal server is a product that isn'tintended to be modified a great deal whereas WSS is a service that alsorepresents a horizontal development environment in which you can modifyall sorts of things.

I did this and ended up removing it because it was a very delicate thing and I didnât trust end users to not blow up the page. After I added the Modified Shared page link and started messing around with some web parts I completely blew up the Sites page. I canât remember exactly what I did, as it was some time ago, but this solution should be used very carefully and on a test server first.

True, I did run into the same thing. If I remember correctly, what I did that blew up the page was delete the sites web part. I forget exactly what happened, so I deleted the area and started over. Obviously not a great solution if youâre past the point of just starting out, and you already have several sites listed in the directory.

But canât you just change the security on the Sites area so that end users donât have the ability to modify the views of the page? And then you could just train the administrators on the doâs and donâts.

Or, once you have the page looking the way you want it, you could remove the Modify Shared Page link when you were done.

It is partly about the string. The querystring, when it is in there, tells the SPSWC:EditModeSettingsLink control to display with the drop down menu. Without the control, you can go into Edit mode, but you canât add any web parts.

Training I feel is completely dependent on the installation and the support teamâs skill level. Another thing I have found with supporting SharePoint is that you tend to forget how you did something a year ago and the ramifications. I felt safer removing the link personally.

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